QuestCinq.com/News The Republican Party has been “badly damaged” by the government shutdown, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday evening, which finds public opinion souring on the GOP and some of its core positions. Americans blamed Republicans over President Barack Obama for the shutdown by a margin of 22 percentage points, with 53 percent saying the GOP deserved more blame, and 31 percent saying Obama did. Approval ratings for the Republican Party and the tea party were at 24 percent and 21 percent respectively — both record lows as measured by NBC/WSJ. Democrats aren’t wildly popular either. Obama’s…

(Reuters) – Edward Snowden’s father arrived in Moscow on Thursday to visit the former U.S. spy agency contractor who is living in a secret location in Russiabeyond the reach of U.S. authorities. “I am his father, I love my son and I certainly hope I will have an opportunity to see my son,” Lon Snowden told reporters at the airport, adding that he felt “extreme gratitude that my son is safe and secure and he’s free”. Snowden, who worked for the National Security Agency in Hawaii, fled to Hong Kong in June and then flew to Moscow where he was…

QuestCinq.com An adult film company is offering Miley Cyrus a million-dollar porn deal to get behind the camera and direct a XXX flick. GameLink, an online adult store founded in 1993 that dubs itself one of the “leading international online retailers of adult entertainment,” wants Cyrus to direct a porn flick for a cool $1 million, according to TMZ. The company called her an “empowered” and “unapologetic” woman, who could use this opportunity to really show the world she’s “not a little girl anymore.” In a letter sent to the singer’s camp Oct. 9 and obtained by TMZ, GameLink wrote:…

(Reuters) – Pakistanrearrested former president Pervez Musharraf on Thursday after accusations that he was personally responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people when he ordered commandos to storm the Red Mosque in 2007. The operation at the radical mosque in the capital of Islamabad followed a week-long standoff between the mosque’s supporters and security forces. The rearrest came after Musharraf had been granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Wednesday he was cleared to leave the country. A complaint against Musharraf in the Red Mosque case was registered last month on the orders of…

QuestCinq.com Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. -Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a “master of the contemporary short story”. The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear Life and Dance of the Happy Shades, is only the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. “I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win,” Munro told Canadian media. Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award – which is presented to a living writer – is worth eight million kronor…